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Legal matters

Members are reminded that if they or their clients have received sporting rights valuation notices from their regional Assessor, any appeal against that valuation must be made within 6 months of the notice, otherwise the opportunity to contest the valuation is lost until the next national revaluation (or possibly on a change of ownership/occupier).

You may think your woodlands are ‘commercial’, but will the taxman
agree? HM Customs & Revenue may challenge owners who claim
Business Property Relief for their occupation of commercial woodlands.
David Gittins, MA, FCA as woodland taxation adviser to Confor members
has prepared the following notes to help you.